ken is not just a strategist. he is an advocate, a leader, and he has proven time and again that he can win tough battles. under his leadership, our democratic party will be on the path to victory once again. thank you very much. >> my name is peggy flanagan, the lieutenant governor of minnesota and i am here to support ken martin. i have known ken my entire political life. he works hard. he is incredibly dedicated to building this party. because he did that in minnesota, we won paid medical and family leave, child tax credit that leads the nation, supported and protected access to reproductive rights and abortion, and let me tell you that this is the kind of work that we will see across the country with ken martin as our party chair. his personal commitment is as strong as his political commitment. he gave me my first job in politics. he was my first campaign manager in 2004. he sat by my mother's bedside as she was dying and held her hand. he is a good man and will be the best for our party. join me in welcoming

did you have a sense talking to them of why ken martin ultimately won?t was about his candidacy that was persuasive to the membership. >> they felt that ken martin was not was a national like could be a national party leader. not that ben wikler couldn't, but he has done great work in wisconsin. but the ken martin, he has led the state party chairs across the country. and he's somebody that has a vision. and they felt like he would be a fighter and really would understand, like be able to jump right in. and they liked what he had to say about in messaging. and he aligned a lot with martin o'malley, governor o'malley on that point. but it was very, very close. i will note very, very close. lastly, there are a lot of outside people who are not dnc members that endorsed in the race and they didn't pick ken martin, but notably the members, the people with their skin in the game. they chose ken martin. and i do think that that's an interesting dynamic going forward. and, you know, that's we're going to ask some other folks like governor kathy hochul. she know

ken dilanian, thanks.where a pro-russian paramilitary leader from eastern ukraine is dead after a bomb detonated in the lobby of a luxury apartment building. just take a look at the aftermath. shattered glass and debris from the blast scattered across the floor. nbc international correspondent meagan fitzgerald is in london for us. megan, what more do we know about what happened? >> well, chris, what we know, according to russian. >> state media, is that. >> armen sarkisian. >> was in the basement. >> of this luxury apartment block when this bomb went off. killing him, another. person and injuring three others. now we're hearing from a ukrainian member of parliament who says that sarkisian was taken to a hospital. he was in the icu where he later died. but as you mentioned, when you take a look at the images that are coming out of the scene here, you can see just how intense that bomb really was. he was in the basement, and you can see the doors of the lobby just blown off windows around it, blown off. a l

ken kratz: i'm hoping this book will change the narrative.cence, trials or retrials, kim petersen says that the person being forgotten is her friend, teresa. kim peterson: she is the reason why we're even talking about this, and she just deserves to be remembered. i love hugs. andrea canning (voiceover): for her memories, kim says she goes back to this grainy video diary teresa made three years before she died. it was played at avery's sentencing. it gives me the chills every time i hear it because she talked about everything she loved. andrea canning: is there anything you would say to teresa right now if she could hear you? kim peterson: just that you're still in my heart, and i'll never forget you. whenever that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. [theme music] >> good morning. >> and welcome. to this sunday. edition of morning joe. weekend. it was another fast moving news week. that's an understatement. and here are. >> some of the. >> conversations you might have missed. >> president has not.

ken itzo: yeah, like teenagers. andrea canning (voiceover): debbie got a kick out of lars's laid back ways, just a guy into old school board games, restoring muscle cars, and drinking texas's favorite homegrown soft drink, dr. pepper. about a case a day. i mean, he-- what? --drank a lot dr. pepper. at least a 12 pack, i know. i've never heard of someone drinking that much dr pepper. i thought it would kill him. [laughs] doesn't drink a lot of alcohol at all, just dr. pepper. andrea canning (voiceover): and when private debbie brought lars out to meet her friends, they knew it was serious. and he arrived with her, hand in hand. andrea canning (voiceover): sure, they noticed lars was a different sort of match for their friend. he's very quiet. he's very quiet. he's go the blond hair that would go with being named lars. he seemed like a surfer big man. andrea canning (voiceover): but to debbie, he was the right man. i felt like she was really in love with them. i can understand her thinking, you know, maybe it's time t

i want to bring in nbc's ken dilanian.s, and lisa rubin is msnbc legal correspondent. ken, what can you tell us about this decision? it just happened in court, correct? >> that's right. chris, u.s. district judge george o'toole in boston has temporarily enjoined this buyout program because he's allowing both sides more time to make their arguments. one of the federal employee unions has asked for a halt to this program, saying that it's illegal. and, of course, as we know, there are many, many questions about this program, including, first of all, whether it's legal, whether the government would have the money to fund it in the event of a government shutdown. many federal public employees have a lot of questions about it. and yet, as you said, many thousands have signed up for it. it allows people to stay employed and be administration, using it in an effort to cull the federal workforce. but a lot of questions and criticism about it. and now this federal judge has put a temporary halt to this program. while both sides mar

he goes, ken, i go, dan.i started my story and right away i'm like, i just called dennis richmond dan live on the air like an idiot. and i'm thinking, as i'm still reading, how am i going to fix this? and i couldn't think of a way to fix it. and then we go to the story and we come out of it, and i toss back to dennis correctly. and after the show, i just, i just waited it around to, to get what i had coming. you know, i was it was going to be bad. i knew it was going to be bad. and he came up to me and he looked me in the eye and he gave me a fist bump and he goes, good job steve, steve, he told me, steve. >> oh, that's that's the kind of story we need to hear. yeah, yeah. >> he let one slide. he let me slide one. so i mean, but that's how you felt about it. you wanted to be at the top of your game when you were doing anything with dennis. >> yeah. ken, thank you so much for sharing your stories. i know he's been a big influence on your professional life as well. i could tell some of the work when i tossed, w

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maria: what about broadly speaking on earnings overall, ken?a sense of where managers and ceos are thinking 2025 will be? >> so what we're seeing still is a healthy economy. so for companies like disney, where there's questions in terms of will we see economic growth, probably two and-a-half, 3%, consumers at least those consumers at the higher end are looking for experience and spending and that definitely folds into leisure and entertainment. maria: than circumstance what do you think? big tack wrapped up fourth quarter earnings this week. alphabet reported mixed results. pretty good sales growth. last quarter google parent announcing plans to invest $75 billion in cap ex for a.i. we're finally seeing the a.i. spending broaden out. what's your take on big tech earnings. >> i think the earnings have been pretty good, maria. what investors are concerned about, adam talked about earlier the deceleration in cloud growth but it's also because they've been capacity constrained so we heard that from microsoft, they can't build the data centers fast

>> ken, tell. >> us more. >> about that. >> that january 6th investigation piece of.bby's background. >> right. so bove is the acting deputy attorney general, and he's been the face of the administration's campaign to go after prosecutors and fbi agents who worked on january 6th cases. he wrote the memo ordering the fbi to turn over all the names of people who worked those cases. what he didn't say in that memo is that he played a key role in efforts to arrest and prosecute january 6th defendants when he was head of the counterterrorism unit in new york city after the capitol riot. and we have a story exploring this on nbc news.com this morning, quoting people who worked with him, saying he never expressed any qualms about the investigation, and they were stunned to see him repeating trump's talking points that the january 6th probes were a grave national injustice, and that fbi agents acted unethically in some of the cases. there's no evidence for that. and bove's former colleagues say he knows that very well. >> ana ryan, i hope you have a coffee coming by the gallo

ken, what can you tell us about this? >> chris, these agents. >> are. >> challenging not. >> just the. >> survey. >> but the effort to. >> compile and disseminate. >> a list. >> of all. >> of the fbi personnel who worked on january 6th cases. >> they say. >> that there's no legitimate. >> reason to do. >> this the way. >> that the trump administration. >> is trying. >> to do it right now. and they allege. >> that the very act of. >> compiling a. >> list of persons who. >> worked on matters. >> that upset. >> donald trump. >> is retaliatory. >> in. >> nature. >> intended to intimidate fbi agents and other personnel. >> and to. >> discourage them. >> from reporting any. >> future malfeasance. >> by donald trump or. >> his agents. >> and while there are only nine. >> plaintiffs. >> chris. >> i. >> can tell you that a lot many more. >> fbi agents than that support this effort and may sign on to. >> the. >> class here. >> but it's going to be a difficult thing. >> i mean, obviously, a government agency has a right to compile l

winners was ken of the awards e scooped all another of the winners was ken of the awards nominated |astle you will find that on the news website and app. more on news website and app.—more on at the top of the hour so so stay us on bbc too, so stay with us on bbc news. weather next. too, ragain. with us on bbc too, ragain. we| us on bbc too, ragain. we have n bbc too, ragain. we have a bbc too, ragain. we have a cold front across the of front across the north—west of the this morning, and the country this morning, and as it slips it, for the cold 7 for the cold air 7 for the cold air pushing watch for the cold air pushing away the milder air. tomorrow there will be cooler conditions there will be coole: conditions we will be right the way as we will be right the way through the �* this week through the rest of this week and into the weekend. what is happening today that happening today is that weather front is producing some cloud, some rain, of that will be some rain, some of that will be heavy at times, and windy conditions. coastal gales across the west but in the 77 7 and 7 and t

first of all, it's actual fuel for kens military, which means it's strengthening his regime. he reportedly gets oil in return for sending ammunition missiles and troops to pretend. and secondly, this is a win win for bruton, because putin has a lot of oil. the majority of it used to go to e u countries, but the european union has banned most oil imports since rushes full scale invasion of ukraine pollutants. oil shipments to north korea are also a way to show how little he cares about sanctions of any kind. kim, this regime has been under un sanctions because of his missiles and nuclear weapons program for almost 20 years. they also limit oil imports to north korea before russia consistently supported the restrictions. now put in has changed course, excuse breaking, but to un sanctions. so she has break and we told mechanism, a russia has a lot of power in the us because it's a permanent member and the security council, meaning it can veto things. in 2024, russia used its veto to shut down a you and watch dogs that monitors sanctions on north korea. because it's a couple itse

>> so the thing i love about ken and having seen him at a couple of forums is ken is the guy that you want in a bar fight. ken is tough. he's aggressive. he's a union guy. he knows how to throw a punch. and i think the party was looking for someone that is actually going to want to fight donald trump and the maga republicans, and i think that's what ken was able to communicate. look, we actually had some great people. and i think the top two candidates were both actually like, fantastic, both progressive, both both good democrats. i think ken knows how to throw a punch and not wait around that. he knows that we've got to actually be on the offense. and so i'm i'm hopeful that that he takes that message across the country. we're going to need him. and i think all of us have got to be there to support him. >> all right. congressman robert garcia of california, congressman, great to have you on the show. thanks for coming on. >> thank you. >> coming up, brand. >> new details. >> on the investigation into the helicopter jet crash near washington, dc. that's coming up next. >> legal eagle.

this was obtained by ken dilanian, my colleague.gents do to keep all of us safe. i'm going to read it in full to you, because it's pretty powerful. for those seeking to raise their awareness, i offer this vignette. the letter reads. free of political bias or moral judgment is not. it is not about any one person, but an amalgamation of multiple fbi special agents. i am the coach of your child's soccer team. i sit next to you on occasion in religious devotion. i am a member of the pta with friends. you celebrated my birthday. i collected your mail and took out your trash while you were away from home. i played a round of golf with you. i am a veteran. i am the average neighbor in your community. this is who you see and know. however, there is a part of my life that is a mystery to you and prompts a natural curiosity about my profession. this is the quiet side of me that you do not know. i orchestrated a clandestine operation to secure the release of an allied soldier held captive by the taliban. i prevented an isis terrorist from boar

joining us now, nbc's ken dilanian and msnbc legal correspondent lisa rubin. so, ken, good morning.this buyout program stand as of this moment? hey, good morning jose. well, as you described, there is a fundamental disagreement about whether it's legal. and so a federal judge in boston is going to hear arguments at 2 p.m. this afternoon in this lawsuit brought by federal employees unions, the unions allege that this so-called fork in the road offer from trump and elon musk is arbitrary and capricious, in violation of the administrative procedures act, and exceeded the office of personnel management authority under what's called the antideficiency act. now, opm extended the offer to all employees except military, postal service and immigration personnel, with some exemptions for key national security positions. lawyers for one union wrote that the forced directive is, quote, a sweeping and stunningly arbitrary action to solicit blanket resignations of federal workers. and they added that, quote, defendants have not even argued, nor could they, that the fork directive was the product

a chance for ken to is so much better to invest into this relationship. if he's too cool, that's fine. nice. you can tell him to balance between these dominance in the like for any reason for the treaty, the 2 leaders signed pays the way for that. and building bridges isn't just an empty phrase for put in. and can they literally agreed to build a bridge one for vehicle traffic. it could potentially be constructed here as an extension of the nearest russian highway. and could mean more trade in the future. trading with russia is already paying off for kim north korean oil tankers have been making trips to russia to bring back oil. for example, on this route, that's according to an investigation by the open source center, a u. k based non profit. and that oil matter is for 2 reasons. first of all, it's actual fuel for kens military, which means it's strengthening his regime. he reportedly gets oil in return for sending ammunition missiles and troops to putin. and secondly, this is a win win for bruton, because putin has a lot of oil. the majority of it used

joining us now from the justice department, nbc's ken dilanian. ken, good morning. what have you learned? >> good morning jose. in a memo to the workforce that went out last night, acting fbi director brian driscoll told them that he had been ordered by the justice department by acting deputy attorney general emil bove to turn over the names of all the fbi employees who worked on january 6th cases. you'll remember that previously, he turned over a list of employee identification numbers in response to a request from the justice department. and in a memo previously, the justice department declared that that was insubordination. so driscoll, who could be fired at any time he was installed by the trump administration, really had no choice but to comply here. he said he sent the names over a classified channel to try to ensure that those names are never made public, which is the big concern among fbi agents and personnel. jose. >> ken dilanian, thank you very much. and now to new developments in the efforts by president trump and his allies to reshape the federal govern

ken, let me turn to you. and we're seeing the us agency for international developmen still in this trump mandated holding pattern. thousands of staff members put on lve right now. just moments ago, presidentrump remarked on the unfounded fud claims aut usaid, and he praised elon musk's efforts. watch. >> we're catching up to a point where they don't know what the heck is going on. they can't lieve they're getting caught. and i have great respect for the people that a doingt. elon musk is hping us on it, and he's pretty good. he's pretty good. he's pretty good at it. >> they haven't been specific about fraud claims. they haven't shown any evidence of any kind of criminal activity. my understanding is there may be lawsuits now on the way. >> yes. good morning. look, a lot of people don't understand this, but usaid is run largely by contractors, by ngos and by private development companies, and they are owed tens of millions of dollars right now by e government. and they're trying to maintain their payrolls and

|ccuses in kinch usher —— in ken schussler and this insurgency started around two years ago. and that led to talks which led to them laying down their arms and then they started again about two years ago. i have been accusations they are backed by rwanda, largely because the bigger population of tutsis is found in rwanda, but rwanda accuses the congolese government of backing a rebel group that is intent on overthrowing the government in kigali, there is a french acronym which means the democratic forces for the liberation of rwanda and these include people who are considered to have taken part in a genocide, they fled from rwanda across the border into the democratic republic of the congo. this fighting goes way back. this region is very unstable with dozens of armed groups operating, it is mineral rich with golds, cotton, many critical minerals and according to experts that is the reason why there has been so much instability for such a long time. �* ., ~ instability for such a long time, �* ., ~' w, ., time. anne soy, thank you for takin: time. anne soy, thank you for taki

>> steve: i love you, big daddy ken! >> jimmy: i love you, big daddy ken!] >> tariq: i love you, barbie! >> steve: what? >> jimmy: that's a qr code. [ light laughter ] that's a qr code in case you don't want to read the book, you have a robot read it for you. [ laughter ] guys, it is wednesday, and you know what that means. it's "tonight show trivia" night. here we go. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ tonight show trivia night ♪ >> jimmy: higgins, would you like to explain to everyone how this works? i love this. i love games. >> steve: i would love to. jimmy, to test your knowledge on a variety of topics -- >> jimmy: okay. >> steve: -- i'm gonna ask you a series of trivia questions. >> jimmy: yep. >> steve: and all you have to do is answer correctly. >> jimmy: that's good. i love trivia. let's go. >> steve: okay, you ready? >> jimmy: mm-hmm. >> steve: ready for the first question? >> jimmy: mm-hmm. >> steve: what do we celebrate on presidents day? [ light laughter ] [ drumroll ] >> jimmy: the legacies of george washington and abraham lincoln. [ buzzer ] >> steve:

let's go to former nasa crash investigator ken christianson. ken, thank you for being here. i don't know if you saw that debris field that lindy was just talking about. i think we can show video of it, if you can rerack that. it's extraordinary. i've never seen a larger debris field. that tells you, i would imagine, that this thing just came straight down, the plane, right in. >> right. aircraft crash investigation world we call that high angle, high velocity impact. so the plane is just hitting, basically, like you said, straight down and then the plane will break apart. hence, the fireball. so you have an ig in addition source, you have fuel, so when it impacts, you have that huge fireball. it looks like from the video footage that this plane was on fire prior to hitting the ground. so what in the crash investigation world we'd be looking at is was there power on the aircraft. if there was catastrophic turbine failure or the turbine just came apart, then that can penetrate the tail section of the aircraft which would inhibit elevated control, and that would make sense for

ken martin is in this.ice chairs who were elected, our leadership team is in this because many of them have stories just like mine. i grew up in a working poor family in north philly, buried both of my parents by the time i was 27 because they didn't have access to the type of health care everybody deserves. every holiday season, me and my sisters and my brother, we don't have a family home to go back to because we moved multiple times. the democratic party gives a damn about families like mine. that's what we're focused on. i refuse to spend the next four years somehow apologizing for being a democrat, somehow buying into this narrative that our best days are behind us. they are not. but i also refuse to spend the next four years talking about every crazy thing that comes out of 1600 pennsylvania avenue. democrats did so much better downballot than, you know, the 1.3% or whatever it was difference that we saw at the top of the ticket. and i think it's going to be incumbent on us to tell those stories. my s

but here ken martin wins. what happened yesterday? and what does it say about the direction the party wants to take? >> i mean, it's a reminder that this is an inside game. the only people allowed to vote on this are members of the democratic national committee. so despite what senator schumer and former speaker pelosi and others say, it is largely from the beginning. ken martin had a very big lead among party chairs. look, it certainly matters in terms of building the nuts and bolts of the party. there's no doubt about it. he calls for an investigation and review of what happened, not an autopsy. he claims the party is not dead. we shall see. but look, the the democratic party is not going to rise from the ashes from the headquarters of the dnc. it's going to take some specific leader out there. i think back to zero four, after president bush was reelected, democrats were really just in their doldrums. what happened? barack obama also elected that year. he ultimately rose up after a long primary fight. so the party will be rebuilt if

the question, who is ken martin?y and i didn't know who he is. well, this is like, this is a different thing. this isn't a democratic primary. this is an internal democratic party sort of like vote. it's kind of like the model un vote. it's they're looking for someone who can be a custodian of the party, who can, you know, work the levers of the party and work the inside game and kind of help set the stage for the candidates that people know to run and run with. it comes, though, at a really fascinating point within the democratic party right now, because i even asked governor gretchen whitmer the other day on morning joe, who's the leader of the democratic party, she made the argument that you can have more than one leader. okay, sure. but i'm not sure that americans would even say one name cohesively right now. so is that the role that ken martin is supposed to play, going from a relative unknown to the leader of a party in chaos? >> ken martin has to do a lot of things really. >> quickly, right? so he has to do al

chris. >> ken dilanian, thank you. now to paris, where jd vance is meeting with french president emmanuel macron and other nato and european allies on his first foreign trip as vice president. nbc's raf sanchez is reporting from paris. so what is on the vp's agenda? >> well, chris, this is the. >> vice. >> president's debut on the world stage. >> and it has been a pretty. >> dizzying rise for a man. >> with limited foreign policy experience. until two. >> years ago, he. had never. >> held elected office. and tonight he is at the. >> elysee palace. >> representing his. >> country in that. >> club of. world leaders. he's here in the french capital to give a major speech tomorrow at a. summit on artificial intelligence. >> and the. >> trump administration's. approach to ai. >> has basically been america first. >> the president. >> has been very explicit. he wants the united. >> states to be the world's dominant. >> ai superpower. >> he has. >> rolled back. >> biden era. >> safety regulations. >> on ai. >> and it comes as

ken marthe if, huge win. -- ken martin. first ballot.nesota party which has some experience in winning, and he was able to cobble together very early endorsements, and that carried him through the end. griff: one more follow-up on that, brad, because as i understand it reading in the "wall street journal" this morning, ben winkler, the wisconsin candidate, had the backing of jeffreys, pelosi and schumer. is this a bucking of the party bosses? >> yeah. remember who is voting here, right? these are democratic party chairs from around the country. these are democratic party insiders, and they are very knowledgeable about the candidates, very knowledgable about the specific thing they want out of the dnc. you know, those endorsements can help gain momentum. at the end of the day, these people probably already had a their minds made up. most of those endorsements came in the last two weeks. griff: great insight, and i'm sorry to turn the -- but, i really wanted to get it. and, ryan, i assume you don't have any dnc insight, so i'll turn you to

that is what ken griffin put out there.erested in the longer-term potential ramifications of the threat, even if they don't go on. the only thing we have right now is rhetoric. jonathan: we talked about the degree of confidence coming into 2025 skyhigh for consumers. consumer confidence is a little softer. business confidence is still elevated but there was some clarity and they wanted fast. they wanted to hit the ground running. they got a sense of that at the world economic forum. the confidence from american executives was palpable. they wanted to make hiring decisions, decisions -- capex decisions. they can't until the have clarity on the monetary policy. lisa: there will be that clarity, the dealmaking. look at banks. how long does this grind on before people challenge that? annmarie: i don't think they will get clarity. we have been talking about it. going back to the idea of dealmaking, m&a, animal spirits. this january was the lowest convective 2015 when everyone said this was going to be the year of doing deals. ev

absolutely. >> thank you, ken delaney. and then joining us now, leon panetta, the former cia director and defense secretary in the obama administration, former white house chief of staff for president clinton, also the former director of the office of management and budget. in your long career, your storied career. so in that role also, how do you explain the legality of what is happening with whole departments today? us aid being shut down, moved over, money being frozen, congress appropriates, not the executive. >> well, the president swore an oath to faithfully fulfill the duties of that. office and to preserve, protect and defend the constitution. all of that is in jeopardy. now as. >> they go. >> after people, particularly. >> in law. >> enforcement. >> and try to fire. >> them. >> for doing. their job, which. >> is outrageous. >> these are agents. >> who were. >> doing their job. >> of enforcing. >> the law. particularly on january 6th. >> which involved. >> a. >> riot to on. >> the in the. >> capitol and. >> the att

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joining us now is ken martin. the democratic national committee. mr. martin, congratulations. thanks very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you for having me, rachel. >> i'm glad to be on. >> what should americans know about you who don't know about your record or have just heard me describe your record in minnesota? might have been aware that there was a fight for democratic party chairman, but aren't sure what to expect now that you have emerged victorious from that closely fought contest. >> well, look, i mean. >> first i you. >> mentioned our. >> track record of. >> success in minnesota. >> it's not just winning. >> elections for winning sake, right? we've been able. >> to deliver on. >> the. >> promises that we made to working people throughout our state. and that's the same lens i want to bring to this work here. there are so. >> many people that have struggled. >> throughout this country over the last several years. >> who are feeling. >> forgotten. >> left behind, feeling. >> like. our party is not fig

you agree with ken griffin? >> well. >> first, he's richer than i am, and he has very blue eyes, by the way. so he could be a teller of truth. i do agree with him with much of what he said. now, let's be fair. we're going to have to see what comes out of the budget negotiations on capitol hill and whether or not they can credibly reduce the deficit, start bending the curve, or if it's going to expand what they've talked about so far adds another 2 to 3 trillion to the deficit. the issue now is the interest that's paid on those borrowings by the us treasury. and we pay $1 trillion a year in interest. we only take in 4.96 trillion. and in terms of revenue, 19.3% or so of everything, all the sails, fees, taxes, tariffs, whatever it may be that the government levies goes to paying interest. that's the achilles heel. and i think larry has raised a very good issue here. and i agree with ken as well. this is the risk to our economy. we'll hopefully have it mitigated by this new administration. we'll have to see. >> the

. >> all right, former fbi special agent ken gray joins us now. ken, good morning. thank you very much for being with us. let's start with the fbi. and i also want to talk about that email from the cia. but what are you hearing from former colleagues in the bureau about how they're reacting? >> good morning. casey. the bureau is in turmoil right now. you have this this hanging over your head. if you are an agent that worked either the january sixth. uh, uh, uh, problem or if you were in mar-a-lago, uh, the bureau sent out a survey to all employees, uh, requesting whether or not you worked on either one of those cases. and then those surveys are being used to identify people who were on a target list, who were placed on a target list. that information was turned over to doj and doj's insistence and, uh, this has employees concerned that they may be fired for doing their job. if you're an agent, you're given a direction to go out and conduct a search or to go out and conduct an arrest. you are following up on a lawful order. and then to be placed on notice that you ma

not in here. >> and what does that fight look like for ken martin?ell, it looks like a multi-front war. he wants to go on offense against donald trump sort of taking take him on on different issues like confirmation fights, but also on the on his administration, but also trying to connect back impact of his administration on voters to try and win back some of the people that democrats ultimately lost in the 2024 vote. it's a big job and certainly the beginning, the next phase of the democratic party, the ken martin phase, begins now. >> all right, ben, our national harbor, maryland. ben, i hope you can, you know, go on. that very nice ferris wheel they have over there after your shift today. thanks for joining us. all right. and on a more serious note, we're going to be looking into what might have caused that plane crash in philly. an aviation expert with some aviation expert with some answers wanna know a secret? more than just my armpits stink. that's why i use secret whole body deodorant. everywhere! we're all human, its okay to smell like one. (

director of the fbi, who is now president of anderson university. >> so, ken, good morning.on patel's nomination? >> hey. >> good morning jose. well, that wasn't a surprise. any senator can delay a vote like this for one week. and senate democrats clearly still have many questions about patel's nomination. just today, they sent a letter questioning the fact that he wouldn't discuss his grand jury testimony in the mar-a-lago case, where he apparently took the fifth amendment. wouldn't talk about that on the committee. but this is standard practice. >> and, ken. >> meanwhile, let's talk about this issue. >> of an accusation. >> of insubordination. what could that potentially mean. >> for fbi leadership? >> yeah, well, normally it would mean they would fire someone accused of insubordination. but this this whole situation is just so unusual and really speaks to the standoff that's happening right now between the fbi and the acting leadership, which was installed by the trump administration. let's remember, and the justice department, brian driscoll, the. >> acting director, has

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i want to bring in nbc's ken dilanian at the justice department. harry litman is a former u.s. assistant attorney general and host of the talking feds podcast. with me here in studio is former florida republican congressman david jolly, who is also an msnbc political analyst. tell us more about this order, ken. >> well, chris, as you mentioned, they said it wasn't about the facts and the law, but they did say it was about what they believed was the weaponization of the justice department in bringing this case. and, you know, eric adams has been complaining that he got crosswise with the biden administration over immigration, and that's why they charge him. there's no evidence of that. but that sentiment was reflected in this memo. i want to read it to you. it says it cannot be ignored, that mayor adams criticized the prior administration's immigration policies before the charges were filed, and the former u.s. attorney's public actions created appearances of impropriety. that's a reference to the biden appointed u.s. attorney damian williams. doj officials believe he used the c

lisa, aaron, ken, thank you all. joining us now is mark zaid, founding legal partner of the organization whistleblower aid. mark, good to have you. here. we are hearing the phrase constitutional crisis. already less than a month into this presidency, the dean of the law school at uc berkeley telling the new york times, there have been so many unconstitutional and illegal actions in the first 18 days of the trump presidency. we've never seen anything like this, mark. other administrations have clashed with courts before. so how do you see it? is this a constitutional crisis or is it just heightened friction between these two branches? >> i mean. >> constitutional crisis may. >> be a little bit over the. >> top, but i think what we're seeing is we're we're on the verge of getting there. i've been saying to so many people that we're not even close to how bad it's going to be. it is going to get far, far worse. i've been litigating against trump and. >> his allies. >> for almost a decade now, and the strategy that they a

nbc's ken dilanian is with us this morning. ken. good morning. the case isn't dismissed yet. happens next? >> good morning jose. >> well, main. >> justice in the form of. emil bove, the acting. >> deputy attorney general, has ordered the prosecutors in the southern district of new york. to dismiss this case. >> it will be up to them to decide whether to carry out that order. some may choose to resign. they, by all accounts, believe strongly in this case. they feel like there was a lot of evidence that eric adams. traded favors. >> from the turkish. >> government for official action. but this is much bigger than eric adams. jose. it's just it's almost it's difficult for me to communicate what an earthquake of a story this is in justice department circles because this is not done. this is the justice department's political leadership coming in and ordering line prosecutors to drop a properly predicated indictment of a high prominent public official, not because of any weakness in the case or the facts in the law. they lay that out in the memo. they're doing it because they're c

there's also, ken, let's talk about whistleblowers. the whistleblower protections are being paused right now or gutted and give me the actual reporting on that. and then there's the igs that all got dismissed. it feels like anybody who might want to raise their hand and say, this isn't okay, this is corruption, is not getting that message is not welcome. it appears within the trump administration. >> yeah, i think you're talking about the office of special counsel, which is the entity that looks after whistleblowers inside the federal government. not to be confused with special counsel jack smith. that kind of special counsel. the trump administration fired the head of that office, and he's now litigating to try to get his job back. but yeah, you're absolutely right. the firing of the ig, that was a one day story almost. we've all we've almost moved past it. my particular fascination and thing that we should not forget is the firing of prosecutors who worked for jack smith sending and what most people think was an illegal firing becaus

ken, the reporting first. been turned over to the doj providing id numbers, not names. will they stay anonymous? >> well, that's the big question, ana. and the second big question is, will any of these people be fired solely because they worked on january 6th, investigations to which they were assigned? and that's what these lawsuits are designed to prevent. you know, they the agents can't prevent the justice department from assembling lists of employees. that's their prerogative. but the issue here is the public disclosure. agents are worried that they're already seeing january 6th felons pardoned by donald trump, doxing fbi agents and putting their personal information on the web and their names on the web. and they're concerned that there is a real safety threat here. but the big picture here is what we're seeing is a campaign of resistance within the fbi, which is largely a republican organization. it's worth pointing out, including by the acting director, brian driscoll, who was installed by the trump adm

casualties on the ground to ken christensen joins us by phone now.an aviation consultant and former nasa pilot, and he's with the department of homeland security, air traffic control. ken, as you look at these extraordinary pictures, it's in the very early going, obviously, but what do you read into what happened here? >> well. >> they i. >> think they just had a very major. >> malfunction right at right at takeoff shortly after. >> and it. >> looks like the. plane just inverted and hit the ground. so one of the things. >> because they were such a low altitude. >> when this. >> happened, i heard some rapid. >> depressurization and i just don't agree with that at all. >> could be. so what kind of rapid what kind of major malfunction are you talking about, ken? what do you think. >> i think. it it looks like it's pointing towards, like, flight controls. >> so whether. >> that was. >> a runaway trim. >> and you're constantly trimming the airplane. when whenever your speed changes, whether you're climbing out, descending. you always try to balance the fl